TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Cumberland Plain Coarse Woody Debris Data
This data contains diameter, volume and biomass measurements of all coarse woody debris pieces and standing dead trees within the core 1 ha plot at the Cumberland Plain site in 2014 - 2015.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-03-28
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-12-15
- Date (Revision)
- 2014-07-14
- Edition
- 1
Publisher
Author
Western Sydney University - Boer, Matthias (Associate Professor)
Bourke Street, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
Richmond
NSW
2753
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- Coarse woody debris (CWD) is a fundamental component of forested ecosystems, providing habitat for organisms and play an important role in nutrient cycling and carbon storage.
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Western Sydney University - Boer, Matthias (Associate Professor)
Bourke Street, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
Bourke Street
Richmond
NSW
2753
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
- Description
- The Cumberland Plain site is located in remnant Eucalyptus species woodland on the Cumberland Plain, at the University of Western Sydney’s Hawkesbury campus at Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2014-03-28
- Title
- Baker, T. R. and Chao, K. J. (2011). Manual for coarse woody debris measurement in RAINFOR plots. University of Leeds, UK.
- Website
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Baker, T. R. and Chao, K. J. (2011). Manual for coarse woody debris measurement in RAINFOR plots. University of Leeds, UK.
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
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- coarse woody debris type
- Unitless
- dead wood position
- Unitless
- thick end coarse woody debris horizontal axis diameter
- Centimetre
- thin end coarse woody debris horizontal axis diameter
- Centimetre
- coarse woody debris length
- Metre
- coarse woody debris void space
- Percent
- coarse woody debris decay class
- Unitless
- coarse woody debris wood density
- Gram Per Cubic Centimetre
- coarse woody debris volume
- Cubic Metre
- coarse woody debris biomass
- Tonne
- total stand coarse woody debris volume
- Cubic Meter per Hectare
- stand standing dead tree volume
- Cubic Meter per Hectare
- stand non-standing coarse woody debris volume
- Cubic Meter per Hectare
- total stand coarse woody debris biomass
- tonne per hectare
- stand standing dead tree biomass
- tonne per hectare
- stand non-standing coarse woody debris biomass
- tonne per hectare
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Coarse Woody Debris
- CWD
- Cumberland Plain
- Forest Structure
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- File description
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- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Cumberland_Plain_site_level_CWD_data
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Cumberland_Plain_CWD_data
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Cumberland_Plain_CWD_data_dictionary
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- TERN EcoPlots Portal
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Coarse woody debris sampling:<br> Coarse woody debris (CWD) was sampled at the Cumberland Plain core 1 ha site in 2015. The core 1 hectare was subdivided in circa 12 m wide strips running East-West. Completing one strip at a time (starting in SE corner of the plot), all CWD (> 10 cm diameter) within the core 1 hectare were fitted with a numbered aluminium tag. The tag was inserted into the ground next to the CWD. The diameter at the base (thickest part), and the top (thinnest part) of a segment of CWD within the core 1 hectare was measured using a DBH tape. Void space and decay class classification based on Baker and Chao (2011) were recorded for each CWD piece. Mean wood density for the decomposition classes was estimated from a separate sample of CWD segments, but did not show a consistent pattern. The following wood densities (in g. cm-3) were applied: decomposition class 1: 0.69; class 2: 0.75; class 3: 0.74, class 4: 0.85, class 5: 0.60. <br> Standing dead trees sampling<br> Standing dead tress were sampled in 2014 and 2015. Using a 100 m tape measure and the Gentry Transects as guidance, the core 1 hectare was subdivided in circa 12 m wide strips running East-West. Doing one strip at a time (starting in SE corner of the plot), all standing dead trees (> 10 cm DBH) within the core 1 hectare were fitted with a numbered aluminium tag. The tag was attached to the Eastern side of the trunk using stainless steel wire inserted into the bark with a custom made tool (i.e. small screwdriver with small notch). Trees with multiple stems were given multiple tags if forking below breast height. The species were identified by Dr. Tony Haigh. The dead status of the tree was assessed by absence of green foliage. The maximum height of all trees within the core 1 hectare was measured using a Haglof Vertex Laser. This device calculates tree height from two distance measures (from the observer to the base and top of the tree) and the angle between the two distance measurements. The maximum height refers to the top 0.5 m of the tree because the Vertex must be aimed at sufficiently dense foliage and branches in order to make a measurement. After this maximum height measurement the proportion of the tree height greater than 10cm in diameter was estimated and the tree height measured by the Haglof Vertex Laser was multiplied by this proportion. When the volume of the segment was calculated dbh was used as the base of a tapered cylinder. This means that the volume of the stem only was calculated and any major branches over 10cm in diameter were not included in the calculation. <br> Calculation of coarse woody debris and standing dead tree volume, mass and biomass<br> The volume of the CWD segment was computed using the Smalian's formula: V = H x (S + s) / 2, where S and s are the diameters at the base and top of the segment, respectively. The final estimate of biomass combines the volume of the segment, with the decomposition class and the percentage of void space.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/eb2f46f5-1c0c-4ee3-a3a2-ee4caa250413
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/eb2f46f5-1c0c-4ee3-a3a2-ee4caa250413
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-08-17T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2022-12-15T00:00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
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